Think very hard about giving your baby an Irish name unless you live in Ireland!

Irish names are mostly easy to pronounce - spelling seems to be a problem for many English people.... How do they cope with Polish, Indian, Turkish names? (I had a friend whose dad was Polish, he had been a pilot in the war. He chopped off most of his surname and used the first 3 letters!) There are Irish names books available, including a Collins Gem.

I know an Aoife and, once you've heard it, it's not difficult to pronounce - so sympathies to the OP. I have a similar problem - my dd's name is Mary-Anne. it is pronounced (funnily enough) Mary-Anne. not Marry-Anne. If it were to be pronounced like that she would be Marianne or (eek worse) Marion and she's fecking not. we have a small minority of perpetually guilty friends. dd has started deliberately mis-pronoucing their names in revenge...

Hello,

Having found out last week that I am pg with number 1, already my mind has begun pondering names, even though it's very early days (I'm only about 6 and a half weeks). My mum is Irish, so I've often thought I would like an Irish name for any DC, but DH isn't too keen on names no-one knows how to spell, like sunnyd mentioned in her first post. So for a boy, I think I would go with Patrick - Irish, but dead easy to spell, everyone knows the name Patrick. It's girls names I am struggling with. I have cousins called Aoife, Niamh, Cliodhna, Eadaoin, Eimear, Grainne..I love all those names, but no-one here would have heard of them, so they would have a lifetime of spelling their names for people. So now I'm looking for an easy Irish girls name. I thought maybe Cara, that's easy and (I think) is Irish. Any other suggestions? Any advice gratefully received.

I like Fionn/Finn. Dee - I don't know where she wafted in from, I thought she was Dennis's imaginary friend for a while. Now I don't think so. I can only have one name.

My son is called Finn but the correct spelling would be Fionn (male version of Fiona) but I actually prefer the 'look' of Finn written down and it's easier to spell (although we have had a few Phins!!)

Blimey. All very mysterious. How do people remember to keep their different identities in detail! They would either make a good author or a good schizophrenic. Did I spell that right..

Is it Dee00? I know she used to live in England.. Are you too discreet?!

She might just be! And there is a regular here who makes guest appearances on rollercoaster with a different name, and I know who she is. I should get a life!

Oh really? Interesting!

Tell me you're not Susie Wong though Chipmonkey. Tell me....

Also on Rollercoaster, you're not "allowed" to say Bad Things about obstreticians or scan clinics or your thread will be deleted!

Glad I haven't freaked you out! I thought I might have done... I got your children's ages wrong. sshsh. I'm useless.

I'll be your friend. I don't do friends under 32. That's my 'cut off'.

I like Jillian with a J. It is more jaunty and care-free with a J. Keith is still just keith though!

Better go feed my son......

I was in England for 8 years, and back to Belfast for a while before Cork - so I like the double perspectives from both boards. I also like being about 42, so you can be my friend. DD1, aka Toxic is almost 15, ds is 16. None of my 3 have Irish names, dh and I were both in school in NI where Latin was the dead language of choice. But all 3 have a name which can be put into Irish if the occasion demands like Rose could become Roisin. Cork names seem to be a mix of Irish, 'English' ones like Mark and Lucy - lots of Prods in Cork! - and a load of gone but not forgotten in Cork like Gillian and Keith.

C0co. That was me!

There are much more people here, so you can go from board to board and not feel like people are bearing a grudge from a conversation on another thread on a different board.

Maybe the truth is that after 15 yrs of living in England I am just more comfortable on an UK board??

You are from NI is that right? You are a good sound protestant from Northern Ireland and now you live in Cork. YOu are 42 and your eldest dd is about 12 is that right???
You see, I shouldn't know all that?? But the Irish board is just too small!
And I have the memory of an elephant

Were you spelt with a 0 for an o? I agreed with Den yesterday. You might notice the occasional tiff here too though, but many more people so less personal 'stuff'.

I am Coco. Do you remember me!!!? You had better say yes!

I fell out with King Dennis. I challenged him on a couple of points. He doesn't grasp that his viewpoint is... his viewpoint.

We've patched things up over the e-mail. But I don't want to post on RC again. I glanced in recently and there were threads about bitching and I thought I wasn't missing much. Susie Wong still dribbles on and on and on I don't dislike her posts, just her self-appointed Queen of the board position....

About a week ago I got sucked in to Mumsnet. Far less nasty. Less of a bear pit altogether. Mostly Laydeeeeez here in fact

Vile. In my socialist eyes there is no royalty anywhere! (Who are you Madame C?)

Oh yeah, that sleazy poet guy? What a deluded ol' bastard. I keep reading about how his feelings have been hurt. Well, I pity the poor Nepalese boys who have sold their souls for a bicycle..... It's so sad. THink of all he could have done for them.. He's a grubby disgusting man.

Is Susie Wong ('ffs') still the Queen of rollercoaster, and Dennis the King?????

Do all their loyal subjects still agree with them!

Yes I am on rollercoaster too, but somebody pointed out I am a laydee, I try to avoid the scarey stuff.

Cathal is horrid! As one of the Sunday's pointed out if he was slinking round outside a boy's school in Dublin in his hat he'd be run out of town. So why should his behaviour towards boys elsewhere be accepted. In his hat, Yuck! I'm sure Peig would agree that all pupils in the state should be cherished equally and my ds would enjoy Irish even less if reading her dronings. I can't think of an English language equivalent of moany moany.

Peig!? Oh my God that was so boring. Torture, torture. If they wrote a book about the spider that's been in the corner of my bedroom for the last year, that would be SO much more interesting!!!!

Peig survivor support group!? Well, at 38 I'm over it now, but oh boy it took a few years to forget all about her!

St Leger, are you the same St Leger on Rollercoaster? That bear pit?

None taken at all! It's actually an interesting converstion, and trying to articulate precisely why I didn't pick Irish names made me think.
So I'm quite tired now.

What Peig is not taught in schools anymore. That is SO not fair. Why shouldn't modern kids have to suffer like we did?